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Topic: pandemic responseView all posts for the topic: pandemic response

Scientists, clinicians across Canada preparing for future pandemic threats

Published May 6, 2024

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Published by: The Canadian Press
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By Nicole Ireland

Nearly $574 million will be doled out to researchers across the country for projects aimed at ramping up Canada’s preparedness for future health emergencies, including the next pandemic, the federal government announced on Monday.

One of the 19 projects is a national network of existing emergency departments and primary-care clinics, called Prepared, that will screen for any new viruses or pathogens that start to appear in patients.

“As a public health specialist and as a practising physician, I would very much anticipate there being another respiratory pandemic in the future. The challenge is we don’t know when it will be or what it will be,” said Dr. Andrew Pinto, Prepared project lead and a family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.

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Topic: Nova ScotiaView all posts for the topic: Nova Scotia

Restrictions likely helped curb spread of COVID-19 in N.S., Dalhousie researchers find

Published September 10, 2023

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Published by: CBC News
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By Anjuli Patil

A new report from six Dalhousie University researchers has found government restrictions that limited movement during the first two years of the pandemic likely helped curb the spread of COVID-19.

It also found infection, hospitalizations and deaths increased when restrictions eased and the highly infectious Omicron variant arrived.

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Topic: long COVIDView all posts for the topic: long COVID

Halifax researcher seeks COVID-19 long haulers to study effects of virus on brain

Published August 23, 2023

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By Britnei Bilhete

Dr. Carlos Hernandez is an assistant professor in Dalhousie University’s faculty of computer science. He hopes to contribute to long COVID research in collaboration with scientists at Western University in London, Ont., and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City in a multi-year study assessing cognitive damage caused by the condition.

But there’s just one issue: He needs more participants in the Halifax area.

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